C.

It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompey the Great; for mine own part, I know not the degree of Worthy, but I am to stand for him.

V, 2, 501.

AUDIENCE. ENTER. EXIT. HISS.

HOL.

Shall I have audience? He shall present Hercules in minority; his enter and exit shall be strangling a snake. And I will have an apology for that purpose.

MOTH.

An excellent device, so that if any of the audience hiss, you may cry “Well done, Hercules; now thou crushest the snake!”

COMEDY.